Ola Al-Aghbary is a graduate of the Faculty of Law, University of Taiz. She is a Yemeni social entrepreneur. She is the Founder and CEO of the Sheba Youth Foundation for Development and Peace. Ola is the focal point of Youth Platform of Peace (A National Youth-led Coalition for Peacebuilding in Yemen). Her main concern is to empower young people and women to make a positive change in their societies. She started her social and civic work in 2011, when she established many volunteering and social initiatives, and that qualified her at the age of 19 , to be the youngest speaker at the first TEDx event in her city “TEDx Taiz”, where she talked about the importance of civil work and youth initiatives in building peace and enhancing development efforts. In 2013 she was chosen as one of the influential women in Yemen by National Democratic Institute (NDI). In 2017 she was chosen to be a Fellow at the Leaders for Democracy Fellowship Program at the American University – Beirut, Lebanon, where she worked with the Lebanese Peace Labs team. Ola is the founder and key member of the Regional Advisory Youth Majlis in the Middle East and North Africa (RAYAM), which was established by the UNICEF Regional Office, NGOs and United Nations agencies in the Middle East and North Africa region. In 2018 she was chosen as one of the best social solutions makers and young researchers at the Evidence Symposium for Adolescents and Youth in the MENA Region by the UNICEF Regional Office and American University of Beirut. In addition to this she was among six youth who were chosen from the Middle East to be on the Youth Advisory Council at the ‘No Lost Generation Tech Summit’, which was held in Amman in 2019. She has represented Yemen in many local and international workshops and conferences.

Participant in: November/December 2020 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes